PANIC AT FIRE THREAT
(Press Assn-
VICTORIAN OUTBREAKS WIDELY S'EPARATED AREAS AFFECTED
-Rec. .9.30 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, Jan. 21. Hundreds of holiday-makers at the seaside resort of Anglesea panicked and fled into the sea and 011 to fishing jetties when bush fires threatened the town. Fires in widely separated parts of Victoria caused damage estimated at £30,000. Guests at the Anglesea Hotel nushed to their rooms, threw their helongings into suit-cases, dropped them out of the windows, and fled in any available means of transporf, including a broken farm cart from the hotel yard. The fnres were assisted by a 40-' mile-an-hour wind and temperatures up to 102 degrees. Main centres of destruction were Ballarat and Anglesea.' When it approached Anglesea on a two-mile front fire gutted the Boy Scouts' camp and advanced tuntil it was on the outskirts of the town. It was under control early in the morning. At Ballarat fires destroyed two homes, 30 hay stacks, 20,000 acres of grass, many wheat crops, miles of fencing and thousands of« sheep. A change of wind averted further damage.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5308, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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179PANIC AT FIRE THREAT Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5308, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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